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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:25:56 +0100
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Fwd: [commonweal] FW: US plans death camp-Bishops and politics


No, I hadn't heard, but it seems only too likely, alas - entirely in 
keeping with their whole approach to the problem of terrorism. Mervyn

In message <5.0.0.25.2.20030603090926.009eb200-AT-mail1.gannon.edu>, 
Richard Moodey <moodey001-AT-mail1.gannon.edu> writes
>LIst,
>
>Has anyone on the list read about any other evidence for such plans?
>
>Dick
>
>>The Courier Mail (Australia)
>>http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6494000%255E4
>>01,00.html
>>
>>May 26, 2003
>>
>>THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its
>>own death row and execution chamber.
>>
>>Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its
>>boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday
>>newspaper reported yesterday. The plans were revealed by Major-General
>>Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries,
>>including two Australians.
>>
>>The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18
>>months.
>>
>>General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a
>>permanent jail, with possibly an execution chamber.
>>
>>The Mail on Sunday reported the move is seen as logical by the US, which has
>>been attacked worldwide for breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of
>>war since it established the camp at a naval base to hold alleged terrorists
>>from Afghanistan.
>>
>>But it has horrified human rights groups and lawyers representing detainees.
>>
>>They see it as the clearest indication America has no intention of falling
>>in line with internationally recognised justice.
>>
>>The US has already said detainees would be tried by tribunals, without
>>juries or appeals to a higher court. Detainees will be allowed only US
>>lawyers.
>>
>>British activist Stephen Jakobi, of Fair Trials Abroad, said: "The US is
>>kicking and screaming against any pressure to conform with British or any
>>other kind of international justice."
>>
>>American law professor Jonathan Turley, who has led US civil rights group
>>protests against the military tribunals planned to hear cases at Guantanamo
>>Bay, said: "It is not surprising the authorities are building a death row
>>because they have said they plan to try capital cases before these
>>tribunals.
>>
>>"This camp was created to execute people. The administration has no interest
>>in long-term prison sentences for people it regards as hard-core
>>terrorists."
>>
>>Britain admitted it had been kept in the dark about the plans.
>>
>>A Downing St spokesman said: "The US Government is well aware of the British
>>Government's position on the death penalty."
>>
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